Lesson plan

Lesson plan on the kinds of imagery in Keats's "To Autumn," with practice on multiple-choice questions.

Lesson plan on alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rime, with Brooks's "We Real Cool" and Hopkins's "God's Grandeur."

Lesson plan on poetic structure: continuous, stanzaic, and fixed forms, the limerick, the sonnet, and the villanelle.

Lesson plan for peer review of the comparison essay's first draft.

Lesson plan on the five steps of close reading, applied to Donne's "Break of Day" and Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."

Lesson plan on analogy in poetry, with Adrienne Rich's "Storm Warnings" and a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Lesson plan on rhythm, meter, and scansion, with a poem by John Donne.

Lesson plan on scanning Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break" and how its meter shapes its meaning.

Lesson plan on the conceits of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

Lesson plan for the first day of the poetry unit. How poetic language differs from ordinary language, read through Robert Hayden's "The Whipping."

Lesson plan on Dudley Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham" and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow."

Lesson plan for close reading Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us."